The last time SMU football competed in a bowl game was 1984. And just like everyone knows on this campus, all talk of SMU football’s illustrious seasons past and the so-called “glory days” before the Death Penalty has been drilled into the heads of every first-year for the past two decades. So how, then, at a school this hungry for winning teams, is it possible that SMU’s got a top 10 nationally ranked sports team that no one seems to give credit? That’s just what Ed Board would like to know.

While it may not be SMU’s football team that’s winning games and making national standings, it is at least still a fútbol team that’s doing so. In fact, the SMU men’s soccer team has been ripping it up all season long with an 11-2-3 record, and until a difficult loss to Kentucky last weekend were the highest ranked team in the country.

SMU’s impressive success has also resulted in multiple players receiving many national awards. Bruno Guarda was named national player of the week by the NSCAA and Soccer America, while also taking C-USA Offensive Player of the Week. Steve Sandbo was awarded with the C-USA Defensive Player of the Week. Senior midfielder Ben Shuleva and junior forward Scott Geppert were also both named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Conference team. This award makes them both eligible to receive Academic All-American awards as well.

So now, with only two home games left before a series of three games on the road, it’s time for everyone at SMU to come out and show their support for a hardworking, winning team. Not only will it help our lesser-known fútbol team to have some more peers cheering in the stands, but attendance will be especially important as it factors into who will host the NCAA playoffs.

The team’s final two games are tonight, at 7:30 and on Friday Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. at Westcott Field.